Bible Verses About Stones

At that time the Lord said to me: Hew thee two tables of stone like the former, and come up to me into the mount: and thou shalt make an ark of wood,

And I will write on the tables the words that were in them, which thou brokest before, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

And I made an ark of setim wood. And when I had hewn two tables of stone like the former, I went up into the mount, having them in my hands.

The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king, whom thou shalt have appointed over thee, into a nation which thou and thy fathers know not: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, wood and stone.

The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone.

You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say, their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.

Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:

And command them to take out of the midst of the Jordan, where the feet of the priests stood, twelve very hard stones, which you shall set in the place of the camp, where you shall pitch your tents this night.

And Joshua called twelve men, whom he had chosen out of the children of Israel, one out of every tribe,

And he said to them: Go before the ark of the Lord your God to the midst of the Jordan, and carry from thence every man a stone on your shoulders, according to the number of the children of Israel,

That it may be a sign among you: and when your children shall ask you tomorrow, saying: What means these stones?

You shall answer them: The waters of the Jordan ran off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord when it passed over the same: therefore were these stones set for a monument of the children of Israel forever.

The children of Israel therefore did as Joshua commanded them, carrying out of the channel of the Jordan twelve stones, as the Lord had commanded him according to the number of the children of Israel unto the place wherein they camped, and there they set them.

And Joshua put other twelve stones in the midst of the channel of the Jordan, where the priests stood that carried the ark of the covenant: and they are there until this present day.

And the twelve stones, which they had taken out of the channel of the Jordan, Joshua pitched in Galgal,

And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers tomorrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?

You shall teach them, and say: Israel passed over this Jordan through the dry channel,

The Lord your God drying up the waters thereof in your sight, until you passed over:

As he had done before in the Red Sea, which he dried up till we passed through:

And he wrote upon stones, the Deuteronomy of the law of Moses, which he had ordered before the children of Israel.

Joshua therefore on that day made a covenant, and set before the people commandments and judgments in Sichem.

And Samuel took a stone, and laid it between Masphath and Sen: and he called the place The stone of help. And he said: Thus far the Lord hath helped us.

And the king commanded that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them:

And the masons of Solomon, and the masons of Hiram, hewed them: and the Giblians prepared timber and stones to build the house.

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones, hewed and made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building.